From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932326AbWFSIdR (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jun 2006 04:33:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932327AbWFSIdR (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jun 2006 04:33:17 -0400 Received: from 189.Red-80-39-87.staticIP.rima-tde.net ([80.39.87.189]:20866 "EHLO iquis.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932326AbWFSIdQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jun 2006 04:33:16 -0400 Message-ID: <449660E1.30505@iquis.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:31:29 +0200 From: juampe User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: juampe CC: Duncan Sands , kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/13] USBATM: shutdown open connections when disconnected References: <44965CC3.1060203@iquis.com> In-Reply-To: <44965CC3.1060203@iquis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org juampe wrote: >> This patch causes vcc_release_async to be applied to any *open >> ** v*cc's when the modem is *disconnected*. >> > > > >> Unfortunately this patch may create problems >> for those rare users like me who use routed IP or some other >> non-ppp connection method that goes via the ATM ARP daemon: the >> daemon is buggy, and with this patch will crash when the modem >> is *disconnected*. Users with a buggy atmarpd can simply restart >> it after disconnecting the modem. >> > > First i must thanks all effort in usbatm development. > IMHO New fatures to a driver that works well and can block the use, > especially if it can disable internet access and the problem is know, > MUST be disabled by default or provide a mechanism to disable it. > > I'm a rare user with routed IP and this patch blocks the normal use of internet > I dont understand how this patch can be accepted for a stable release without > any kind of disable mechanism. > > Yeah, i know that atmarp is buggy, but before speedtouch driver and atm works well during months. > > Best Regards. > Juampe. > > > I really sorry, this is a patch to 2.6.16 and this kernel version works well the speedtouch driver. I have problems with 2.6.17 and the speedtocuh driver block the conection at some point that i can't locate. wave:~# atmdiag Itf TX_okay TX_err RX_okay RX_err RX_drop 0 AAL0 0 0 0 0 0 AAL5 266537 0 198023 1 0 RX cells don't increment, AFAIK the driver don't manage incoming ATM cells How i can dig more into this issue in order to extract relevant information for a bug report?. Best Regards Juampe.